SaaS

There is a little known “holiday” that is celebrated in the baseball world that came and went earlier this month, so I’d like to wish you all a happy (belated) Bobby Bonilla Day! The Godfather of recurring revenue has been receiving an annual payment of $1.19 Million from the New York Mets on every…

I’ve been working on software-defined networking opportunities over the past five years or so, and it continues to amaze me how many enterprise network departments are only embarking on the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) journey because they are either told to do so by analysts or because of perceive…

It wasn’t that long ago that many people thought moving everything to the cloud would be simple and cost-effective – and cloud would somehow make everything easier. The reality is that cloud was anything but simple. Balancing the need to manage costs with enabling speed and business agility became a…

Coauthored by Bilal Raja and Grimt Habtemariam Many organizations have already developed cloud migration targets and are looking at how they can accelerate cloud adoption. As organizations increasingly embrace IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS consumption models many have selected AWS as their primary cloud prov…

The integration of Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) with cloud management functionality into the Cisco family of routers in 2018 excited many of our customers. Instantly over a million installed Cisco ISR and ASR routers could be upgraded to become SD-WAN capable, improving application…

In a digitally disrupted world full of new online experiences, there is a blind spot lurking offline in our physical spaces – data without context. While digital transformation continues to rock industries, it’s also creating mountains of data that can be the greatest source of opportunity for busin…

Cisco Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) holds promising opportunity for enterprises that want to use the Cloud to enhance their technological and competitive advantage. Cisco Capital flexible payment solutions offer many ways for your organization to realize the benefits this technology ca…

Cisco SD-WAN technology is already enhancing networks by efficiently connecting branches, colocation, data center, and cloud resources into the information fabric that unites a distributed enterprise. But it’s at the Cloud Edge—the intersection of the network, cloud, and security–where businesses al…

In my last blog, I told you we would have lots of exciting announcements at Connections 2018. Well, I’m happy to share some of the highlights of today’s exciting news with you. Strong execution The past year has been very strong. We remained focused on execution and business results even as we work…